Anne Germanacos’ collection of short stories, In the Time of the Girls, was published by BOA Editions. She and her husband live in San Francisco and on Crete. Visit her Web site at www.annegermanacos.com.
Winter 2014
Worms, or AZ, my intellectual hero, wears a wig
Before he left for Palestine—he visited only once—Theodore Hertzl’s wife requested that he bring back a pair of Ottoman slippers. The morning before his departure, they traced her foot onto a piece of paper.
Fall 2012
Undertaking
A full self requires stillness.
I am coming upon the face, the shape of it.
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Scratched pots and pans, wooden mallets hard enough to beat in a head. Sieves, bowls, scissors, tongs. Ladles.
Have we humiliated the house of our mother?